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Title
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Description
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Photo (of an ad for Vasquez's store) and chapter of the book about Auguste Pike Vasquez, or Pike Vasquez (1813-1869), a western trader, son of Antoine Vasquez, and "grandson of Benito Vasquez, who had come to St. Louis from Spain in 1770." Raised partly in Saint Louis and moving to the later site of Kansas City in 1926 with his father, "agent for the Kansas Indians" until 1829, then becoming a Rocky Mountain fur trader with his uncle Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in the 1830s, establishing Fort Vasquez and returning to Westport briefly in the 1860s.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Description
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Portrait, illustrations, and chapter of the book about John Grey, "[n]oted primarily as an Iroquois leader and explorer" as Ignace Hatchiorauquasha and "[k]nown to his British associates as John Grey," a half-Indian fur trader settling in Kansas City about 1836. Description of his career, starting west for the Oregon Territory by 1816 from French Canada and discovering parts of Idaho and Wyoming in the 1820s before retiring in 1836 to the Westport and Independence area, joining Francois Chouteau and Andrew Drips and building a house in the West Bottoms "just west of later Mulberry Street about as close to the Indian country as he could put it," then traveling with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet in 1841 and dying some time before the flood of 1844, wiping out his widow's home, forcing her to move to Fort Scott, Kansas, after 1850.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Book
